Ch 10

Ohala has gave substance to Baudouin’s insight
a. Misperception as a significant source of sound change
b. Investigation of the nature of such misperceptions by experimental methods
Two fundamental implications of Ohala’s research
a. The innocent misperception can lead directly to attested recurrent sound patterns
b. Sound change is non-teleological
The sources of the resistance to non-teleological models
a. Experimental results are simply ignored
b. Interpretations of perception experiments are not empirically motivated, and fail to recognize lexical effects
c. Simplification of the model